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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    men dont like backless shirts?

    were-dragon men ruining a lot of shirts when their wings come out

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited September 2016

    Morning. Big bright blue sky and early morning sunshine to lift spirits and (hopefully) help with stormwater runoff today :)

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  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,713
    LeatherGryphon said:

    I think we should all speak FORTRAN and put everything in nested parenthesis.

    C      Good idea!

    (That's really showing my age.)

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,213
    LeatherGryphon said:

    I think we should all speak FORTRAN and put everything in nested parenthesis.

    ...I can grok that.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,378
    kyoto kid said:
    Petercat said:
    kyoto kid said:
    Stryder87 said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    ... so much of what is called "music" today (actually in all ages) is just track homes, trailer parks, and project housing.

    Wow... that is such an appropriate description.  Between so much of it being computer-generated and the vocals all being auto-tuned... there's hardly any 'real' music (mainstream) left from the industrialized nations.

     

    ...ugh I loathe that digital tuning of vocals, it sounds so bloody fake.  I miss the days when real instruments like horns or strings were used in songs and singers actually needed a real voice.  Now it's all digitised overprocessed synth rubbish. Crikey Rick Wakeman and Keith Emerson even played real pipe organs on a couple tracks and it was cool seeing Elton John sitting at a 9' Stienway on stage.

    Or Dave Brubeck from about 20' away at a small outdoor concert.

    In my opinion, modern music lost it's spirit with the advent of the electric bass. Just something about watching a musician crouched over a standup base, cool-ly covering the back end of the music, cannot be replaced by a monkey with an electric prancing around like a guitarist who cannot afford two more strings.

    ...actually saw the Brubeck quintet many many  years ago at the Milwaukee Summerfest on the Jazz Stage.  Cool time.

    Saw this group from Chicago there as well who named themselves after their city's transit system. Loved the big fat horn sound they had.  At the time I hoped they would make it big.

    It seems that your hope was fullfilled!  wink  

    I had learned their first four albums...on bass, and no.  However, I don't care to be thought of as a monkey!

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,378
    MistyMist said:

    centipedes?  riggine one of those would prolly be tedious 

     

    >.< doh

    wasn't there a way in Excel, to make the formula in row2 populate down the column,
    rather than drag those suckers down the column 4,000+ records 

    >.< doh  timestamp field coming out of Oracle as a text string into Excel.  need to massage these into 'date' fields access will import as dates.
    dunno if they want the create date, or create timestamp zulu, doing both cuz which ever i pick will be the wrong one.

    What do they do?  Give you a file extract and say, "Work with this!"  You should have specs before you start the process.  That's no way to work.  It's a sure way to waste time and get it wrong, and of course it will never be their fault, it will be yours.  I always got specs for the desired output before I tackled the job!

    Dana

     

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,378
    starionwolf said:

    I think my video card is overheating a bit because my room is hot.  The computer is drawing 84 degree fahrenheit air into the computer.  The GPU reports its maximun temperature at about 150 degrees.  The unit is not blowing cold air.  Maybe someone should service the air conditioner??  Maybe the ducts are filled with dust.  Eww.

    edit: I forgot to mention that I was playing a game.  I wonder how hot the CPU would be if I rendered a scene in Lux Render or Iray?  Hmm.

    Don't even try it!  You don't want to see blue smoke!

    Dana

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    cant sleep. joints ache. memories painful.

    5am.  tea kettle on.  cant drink coffee this early

  • Jan19Jan19 Posts: 1,109
    edited September 2016
    DanaTA said:
    MistyMist said:

    centipedes?  riggine one of those would prolly be tedious 

     

    >.< doh

    wasn't there a way in Excel, to make the formula in row2 populate down the column,
    rather than drag those suckers down the column 4,000+ records 

    >.< doh  timestamp field coming out of Oracle as a text string into Excel.  need to massage these into 'date' fields access will import as dates.
    dunno if they want the create date, or create timestamp zulu, doing both cuz which ever i pick will be the wrong one.

    What do they do?  Give you a file extract and say, "Work with this!"  You should have specs before you start the process.  That's no way to work.  It's a sure way to waste time and get it wrong, and of course it will never be their fault, it will be yours.  I always got specs for the desired output before I tackled the job!

    Dana

    This is probably a slight deviation from the general line of conversation, but there are two ways to work. smiley​  At least two.

    I always start with a vague idea and run with it.  The idea changes and refines, and what isn't working can be pitched to absolute oblivion.

    No final specs in mind.  Ever.  That is way too confining.

     

    Good morning, everybody.  :-)

     

     

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  • Jan19Jan19 Posts: 1,109
    edited September 2016
    MistyMist said:

    5am.  tea kettle on.  cant drink coffee this early

    I sure can. smiley

     

     

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  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,355
    edited September 2016
    DanaTA said:
    kyoto kid said:
    Petercat said:
    kyoto kid said:
    Stryder87 said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    ... so much of what is called "music" today (actually in all ages) is just track homes, trailer parks, and project housing.

    Wow... that is such an appropriate description.  Between so much of it being computer-generated and the vocals all being auto-tuned... there's hardly any 'real' music (mainstream) left from the industrialized nations.

     

    ...ugh I loathe that digital tuning of vocals, it sounds so bloody fake.  I miss the days when real instruments like horns or strings were used in songs and singers actually needed a real voice.  Now it's all digitised overprocessed synth rubbish. Crikey Rick Wakeman and Keith Emerson even played real pipe organs on a couple tracks and it was cool seeing Elton John sitting at a 9' Stienway on stage.

    Or Dave Brubeck from about 20' away at a small outdoor concert.

    In my opinion, modern music lost it's spirit with the advent of the electric bass. Just something about watching a musician crouched over a standup base, cool-ly covering the back end of the music, cannot be replaced by a monkey with an electric prancing around like a guitarist who cannot afford two more strings.

    ...actually saw the Brubeck quintet many many  years ago at the Milwaukee Summerfest on the Jazz Stage.  Cool time.

    Saw this group from Chicago there as well who named themselves after their city's transit system. Loved the big fat horn sound they had.  At the time I hoped they would make it big.

    It seems that your hope was fullfilled!  wink  

    I had learned their first four albums...on bass, and no.  However, I don't care to be thought of as a monkey!

    Dana

    I used to play trumpet. 

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  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,491

    I should have gone to bed last night (AKA not go to bed after midnight)

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,294
    edited September 2016

    The rain around here has finally stopped.  It's been raining on & off (mostly on) almost all week.  But today the sun is out the birds are singing, but the flowers are mostly dead and the bees are out of work.

    Years ago back in the last century when I was youngish, and fun to be around I was at a gay leather/biker club retreat  in the woods and we had cabins, a swimming pool, night time activities, and a mess hall and there was a keg setup outside where we and the bees would gather sopping up the brew that came forth from said keg.  We kept trying to shoo them away but it was a losing battle.  One of the wizend leathermasters explained to us why the bees were giving us "tough guys" such a problem.  He said "it's autumn, the flowers are dead, the bees are unemployed, they're single, they're sterile, and they're going to die soon.  Where would you be in such a situation?  Let them share."

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  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,410
    kyoto kid said:

    ...while I was at the  pub this evening I heard a young girl walking with her family exclaim, "Dad, look out for that tree" (her father who was distracted nearly walked right  into a tree along the sidewalk).

    After that I couldn't help but get this theme out of my head for over an hour.

     

    Now I can't get the song out my head!

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    diomede said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...while I was at the  pub this evening I heard a young girl walking with her family exclaim, "Dad, look out for that tree" (her father who was distracted nearly walked right  into a tree along the sidewalk).

    After that I couldn't help but get this theme out of my head for over an hour.

     

    Now I can't get the song out my head!

     

    watch out for that ...

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    ... ...  no xtra green square for passing 20,000 post milestone?  kilometer stone?  philosopher's stone?

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,098

    Passing the Philosopher's Kidney Stone... ?

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,294
    edited September 2016
    McGyver said:

    Passing the Philosopher's Kidney Stone... ?

    Om, mani padmi omaaeeEEEEEEEEEEEE!

     

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    sun peeking out.  

     beckoned to lay out in the grass, milkbones in my pockets just in case.  bet buppies would like puppiccino

  • Jan19Jan19 Posts: 1,109
    Tjohn said:
    DanaTA said:
    kyoto kid said:
    Petercat said:
    kyoto kid said:
    Stryder87 said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
     

    I used to play trumpet. 

    laugh​  I remember that song. 

     

     

     

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,213
    LeatherGryphon said:

    The rain around here has finally stopped.  It's been raining on & off (mostly on) almost all week.  But today the sun is out the birds are singing, but the flowers are mostly dead and the bees are out of work.

    Years ago back in the last century when I was youngish, and fun to be around I was at a gay leather/biker club retreat  in the woods and we had cabins, a swimming pool, night time activities, and a mess hall and there was a keg setup outside where we and the bees would gather sopping up the brew that came forth from said keg.  We kept trying to shoo them away but it was a losing battle.  One of the wizend leathermasters explained to us why the bees were giving us "tough guys" such a problem.  He said "it's autumm, the flowers are dead, the bees are unemployed, they're single, they're sterile, and they're going to die soon.  Where would you be in such a situation?  Let them share."

    ...yes

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    heat from sun on my leg woke me up
    poppin bottle of wine. muscato.  ghee buttered chkn and rice on a tray .

    shuttling new loot over to desktop.  flashdrive full, 2 trips smiley

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    Why do hot dogs come 10 to a pack while buns are 8?

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,355
    MistyMist said:

    Why do hot dogs come 10 to a pack while buns are 8?

    So you can make corndogs out of the extra 2.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,378
    ps1borg said:

    Morning. Big bright blue sky and early morning sunshine to lift spirits and (hopefully) help with stormwater runoff today :)

    A couple of days ago it was sunny while I was being rained upon.  Yes, I live in Southeastern New England!  laugh 

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,378
    Jan19 said:
    DanaTA said:
    MistyMist said:

    centipedes?  riggine one of those would prolly be tedious 

     

    >.< doh

    wasn't there a way in Excel, to make the formula in row2 populate down the column,
    rather than drag those suckers down the column 4,000+ records 

    >.< doh  timestamp field coming out of Oracle as a text string into Excel.  need to massage these into 'date' fields access will import as dates.
    dunno if they want the create date, or create timestamp zulu, doing both cuz which ever i pick will be the wrong one.

    What do they do?  Give you a file extract and say, "Work with this!"  You should have specs before you start the process.  That's no way to work.  It's a sure way to waste time and get it wrong, and of course it will never be their fault, it will be yours.  I always got specs for the desired output before I tackled the job!

    Dana

    This is probably a slight deviation from the general line of conversation, but there are two ways to work. smiley​  At least two.

    I always start with a vague idea and run with it.  The idea changes and refines, and what isn't working can be pitched to absolute oblivion.

    No final specs in mind.  Ever.  That is way too confining.

     

    Good morning, everybody.  :-)

     

    That's fine for art, but for writing code for a business application, it's terrible!

    Dana

     

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,378
    Tjohn said:
    DanaTA said:
    kyoto kid said:
    Petercat said:
    kyoto kid said:
    Stryder87 said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    ... so much of what is called "music" today (actually in all ages) is just track homes, trailer parks, and project housing.

    Wow... that is such an appropriate description.  Between so much of it being computer-generated and the vocals all being auto-tuned... there's hardly any 'real' music (mainstream) left from the industrialized nations.

     

    ...ugh I loathe that digital tuning of vocals, it sounds so bloody fake.  I miss the days when real instruments like horns or strings were used in songs and singers actually needed a real voice.  Now it's all digitised overprocessed synth rubbish. Crikey Rick Wakeman and Keith Emerson even played real pipe organs on a couple tracks and it was cool seeing Elton John sitting at a 9' Stienway on stage.

    Or Dave Brubeck from about 20' away at a small outdoor concert.

    In my opinion, modern music lost it's spirit with the advent of the electric bass. Just something about watching a musician crouched over a standup base, cool-ly covering the back end of the music, cannot be replaced by a monkey with an electric prancing around like a guitarist who cannot afford two more strings.

    ...actually saw the Brubeck quintet many many  years ago at the Milwaukee Summerfest on the Jazz Stage.  Cool time.

    Saw this group from Chicago there as well who named themselves after their city's transit system. Loved the big fat horn sound they had.  At the time I hoped they would make it big.

    It seems that your hope was fullfilled!  wink  

    I had learned their first four albums...on bass, and no.  However, I don't care to be thought of as a monkey!

    Dana

    I used to play trumpet. 

    I tried it.  Bought a beginner one cheap.  got home and after a little while was playing, roughly, When the Saints Go Marching In.  But it was a bit difficult because I have a partial denture...makes it hard to get it right...does weird things concerning the lip pressure on the mouthpiece.  Still have the trumpet, though.  Flute is not a problem.  Just picked it up a month ago, after not playing for maybe 30 years...and started playing one of the recorder parts from the beginning of Stairway to Heaven.  Not bad.  I thought that I'd pass out because I'm not in good shape.  But I didn't.

    Dana

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    Morning. Feeble sun rising into storm tossed day and two jumper cold, and wet, didn't really dry out from last week yet :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    DanaTA said:
    Tjohn said:
    DanaTA said:
    kyoto kid said:
    Petercat said:
    kyoto kid said:
    Stryder87 said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    ... so much of what is called "music" today (actually in all ages) is just track homes, trailer parks, and project housing.

    Wow... that is such an appropriate description.  Between so much of it being computer-generated and the vocals all being auto-tuned... there's hardly any 'real' music (mainstream) left from the industrialized nations.

     

    ...ugh I loathe that digital tuning of vocals, it sounds so bloody fake.  I miss the days when real instruments like horns or strings were used in songs and singers actually needed a real voice.  Now it's all digitised overprocessed synth rubbish. Crikey Rick Wakeman and Keith Emerson even played real pipe organs on a couple tracks and it was cool seeing Elton John sitting at a 9' Stienway on stage.

    Or Dave Brubeck from about 20' away at a small outdoor concert.

    In my opinion, modern music lost it's spirit with the advent of the electric bass. Just something about watching a musician crouched over a standup base, cool-ly covering the back end of the music, cannot be replaced by a monkey with an electric prancing around like a guitarist who cannot afford two more strings.

    ...actually saw the Brubeck quintet many many  years ago at the Milwaukee Summerfest on the Jazz Stage.  Cool time.

    Saw this group from Chicago there as well who named themselves after their city's transit system. Loved the big fat horn sound they had.  At the time I hoped they would make it big.

    It seems that your hope was fullfilled!  wink  

    I had learned their first four albums...on bass, and no.  However, I don't care to be thought of as a monkey!

    Dana

    I used to play trumpet. 

    I tried it.  Bought a beginner one cheap.  got home and after a little while was playing, roughly, When the Saints Go Marching In.  But it was a bit difficult because I have a partial denture...makes it hard to get it right...does weird things concerning the lip pressure on the mouthpiece.  Still have the trumpet, though.  Flute is not a problem.  Just picked it up a month ago, after not playing for maybe 30 years...and started playing one of the recorder parts from the beginning of Stairway to Heaven.  Not bad.  I thought that I'd pass out because I'm not in good shape.  But I didn't.

    Dana

    that would sound good on a trumpet :)

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    rusty trombone

     

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